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If there is one event in recent times that has taken the world by storm, it is the summit between North Korean President Kim Jong Un and his US counterpart Donald Trump at Singapore. The successful summit is likely to ease decades-long tensions in the US-North Korean relationship. The world at large sees the summit …

The 12th June summit between the US President and the North Korean leader in Singapore was the high point in the amazing twists and turns of risky international diplomacy, with multiple players, unfolding against the backdrop of a first class nuclear crisis in recent years. The Trump-Kim joint statement, signed at the conclusion of their …

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is making a two-day visit to Beijing, Chinese state media reported on Tuesday, a week after his unprecedented summit with US President Donald Trump. The outing comes as China has sought to strengthen its role as a mediator between the US and North Korea, where Beijing claims compelling security …

A few weeks ago we wrote that the inclusion of hawks on his foreign policy team means that Trump was more than likely going to antagonize the North Koreans. People like Pompeo, Bolton and Giuliani had made public statements that threatened to derail the diplomatic process. When the summit was initially cancelled, the North Koreans …

The US State Department said that a “maximum pressure campaign” will continue against North Korea although US President Donald Trump said last week he did not like the term. In a press briefing on Tuesday, State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert said that “sanctions and the pressure campaign remains in place”, Xinhua news agency reported on …

The Singapore Mint unveiled three types of commemorative coins on Tuesday ahead of a historic meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Unveiling the three commemorative gold, silver and base-metal pieces, the company said it was excited to document history through minted coins and medallions, reports Xinhua news agency. The …

North Korea on Thursday carried out what it said is the demolition of its nuclear test site in the presence of foreign journalists. The Punggye-ri site in Kilju, North Hamgyong province, was regarded as one of the most important facilities in North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme, along with the Yongbyon complex. All six of the …

Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un met surreptitiously for the second time in less than two months, a development which reflects growing proximity between the two countries ahead of Pyongyang ruler’s crucial meet with US President Donald Trump this month. The two met on Monday and Tuesday in Dalian city of …

Despite a historic meeting between Moon Jae-in and Kim Jong-un, a peace treaty between the two Koreas and the denuclearization of the North is threatened by the United States’ continued media blitz where it claims credit for bringing the North to the negotiating table. Senior members of Trump’s administration including National Security Advisor John Bolton, …

US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un are likely to meet in Singapore next month, reports said Monday, as anticipation builds for unprecedented talks between the mercurial leaders. Trump said at the weekend that the two sides had settled on a date and location for the summit — the first between a …

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un promised to ensure that the agreement reached with the South’s Moon Jae-in at a summit on Friday would be implemented, unlike previous pledges. The two Koreas will closely co-ordinate to ensure they do not “repeat the unfortunate history in which past inter-Korea agreements…fizzled out after beginning,” Kim said after …

North Korea has offered to send the younger sister of leader Kim Jong-un as a member of its high-level delegation for the PyeongChang Winter Olympics slated to begin from Friday, Seoul’s Unification Ministry confirmed on Wednesday. The North informed the South that Kim Yo-jong, the first vice director of the ruling party’s propaganda and agitation …

US President Donald Trump has signalled that he has developed a “good relationship” with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, despite tensions between them. “I probably have a very good relationship with Kim Jong-un,” Trump said in an interview about the first year of his presidency with The Wall Street Journal newspaper. “I have relationships with …

US President Donald Trump has said that he was willing to speak to North Korean’ Kim Jong-un. Asked at a news conference on Saturday at Camp David (Trump’s country retreat in Maryland) whether he would be interested in speaking to Kim, the President said that he always believed in dialogue, reports Efe news. “Our stance, …

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday boasted that his nuclear button is not just “much bigger and powerful” than the one North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has but that it also works. “North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the “Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.” Will someone from his …

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in his New Year’s Day address said on Monday that his country has completed its nuclear arsenal and he has the ignition button ready “always on” his desk. “We achieved the goal of completing our state nuclear force in 2017,” Kim said in a televised message broadcast by the North …

Have you ever felt as if you had woken up in an alternative reality? Or that you might be trapped in the twilight zone? For those of us who are self-proclaimed sci-fi geeks, it would probably be the most plausible explanation. For others, it may just feel like being the silent participant in an ongoing …